From midnight watch at campus gates to raids on shops near schools, inspectors in Vasco, Verna and Mormugao lead a no-nonsense crackdown to shield students from shadow of addiction

VASCO

The death of a 20-year-old BITS Pilani student, Rishi Nair – suspected to have consumed a cocktail of narcotics – has become the flashpoint for an unprecedented police offensive across Mormugao taluka.

From late-night stakeouts outside campus gates to raids on tobacco shops near schools, inspectors from Vasco, Verna and Mormugao police stations are now leading from the front in a crackdown that is as much preventive as it is punitive.

Campus under scanner

Top police officers have already walked the corridors of BITS Pilani Goa, not as visitors but as guardians – mapping every entry, exit and ho

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